Appendix
Table A Measured forces
on a test charge sphere due to spheres A and B. The test charge and sphere A are fixed. Three situations for sphere B are considered (including not present and two different positions, as explained in Video 1 and Figure 1). In each situation,
is measured before and after the spheres are charged
| sphere B | charge on each sphere/![]() | measured ![]() | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| not present | 0 | −0.05 | −0.05 | −0.07 | −0.05 | −0.07 | −0.06 |
| 30 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.64 | 0.68 | 0.69 | |
| first position | 0 | −0.08 | −0.09 | −0.11 | −0.12 | −0.11 | −0.10 |
| 30 | 0.65 | 0.64 | 0.64 | 0.65 | 0.67 | 0.68 | |
| second position | 0 | −0.04 | −0.05 | −0.06 | −0.05 | −0.07 | −0.07 |
| 30 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 1.00 | |
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